Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.

There is a God, and no one is going to live longer than he was given to live.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid.

It's in God's hands when we come on this earth and when we leave.

Life and death are matters of the God. I can be killed even at home.

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.

We don't get to decide who God is.

The will of God is exactly what we would do if we knew all the facts.

From our limited vantage point, our lives are marked by an endless series of contingencies. We frequently find ourselves, instead of acting as we planned, reacting to an unexpected turn of events. We make plans but are often forced to change those plans. But there are no contingencies with God. Our unexpected, forced change of plans is a part of His plan. God is never surprised; never caught off guard; never frustrated by unexpected developments. God does as He pleases and that which pleases Him is always for His glory and our good.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills.

What men call accident is God's own part.

There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a lot of friends that have died of natural causes. I've lost a lot of people over the years. This journalist basically recommended to me that God keeps me around because I amuse him.

The earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.